Eddie Gilbert was the best-remembered Aboriginal cricketer to play first-class cricket in Australia. In 1929‚ after years of playing with the Barambah Aboriginal cricket club‚ news of Eddie’s phenomenal success in local matches reached Brisbane and the Queensland Cricketing Association brought him to Woolloongabba for a demonstration. He slowly made his way up to playing with Queensland team and was a valuable member. The achievement that Eddie Gilbert is remembered for more than any other is his
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Australia: The Land Down Under Our International Travel Plan Our International trip was to Sydney‚ Australia‚ with four fun filled days of adventures ahead of us. We worked around all of our schedules and ended up going March 21st-24th. To gain more knowledge about the place we were taking off to we decided to research the culture‚ population‚ art‚ and tradition of Australia. After comparing prices‚ we decided to use Expedia.com‚ where we found four roundtrip tickets from the Dulles Airport
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“Australia has an ethical and moral responsibility to provide aid to countries which are less well off” Each year‚ Australia spends billions of dollars on providing aid to poorer countries to improve health systems‚ poverty‚ education as well as providing immediate assistance when natural disasters hit. The Australian Government’s overseas aid program is improving the lives of millions of people in developing countries. The statement saying “Australia has an ethical and moral responsibility to
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• After graduating from the University of Melbourne in 1916 with First Class Honours in Law‚ Menzies was admitted to the Victorian Bar and to the High Court of Australia in 1918. In 1920 Menzies served as an advocate for the Amalgamated Society of Engineers which eventually took its appeal to the High Court of Australia. The case became a landmark authority for the positive reinterpretation of Commonwealth powers over those of the States. The High Court’s verdict raised Menzies’s profile as a skilled
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1. Introduction: The Reserve Bank of Australia is considering an increase in the target cash rate by 25 basis points in the near future. It is the intention of this report to analyse the positive and negative impacts of a rise in interest rates on the loanable fund market in Australia. In order to analyse the impacts of an increase in interest rates on the loanable fund market‚ the reasons behind the possible rate rise in the near future will be looked upon. Charts and diagrams have been
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The human rights of people in immigration detention are of special concern to the Commission because the right to liberty is a fundamental human right recognised in major human rights instruments to which Australia is a party‚ including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The human rights of vulnerable groups – including children‚ asylum seekers and refugees – are given special protection under international law. The conditions for and treatment of people in immigration detention
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of Australia have influenced the nature and identity of Australian society. The aspects of changing demographic characteristics affecting Australia’s nature and identity include multiculturalism; the ’ageing population’; decreasing fertility rates; the changing indigenous population and the changing population density of Australia. Australia has one of the lowest population densities in the world‚ with population spread occurring around particular areas of the Australian coastline. Australia is
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The primary internal reason how Australia responded to the threat of communism was by Menzies and the Liberal Party attempting to ban the CPA. Menzies tried to ban the CPA two times. The first time was in 1950‚ when the Liberal Party introduced the Communist Party Dissolution Bill (CPDB). Menzies tried to make it a law so that the CPA would become illegal. However‚ this was unsuccessful as the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and many other unions opposed it as this would lead to the Liberal Party to
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own responses to these influences‚ and the extent of this will also be explored. The 1950s meant the emergence of the teenager; it also brought peace and prosperity to many. And during the fifties there were far more American films released in Australia‚ and they became more popular than many Australian films. Films were of great influence to the youth of the 1960s‚ films such as The Wild One and Rebel Without A Cause showed a new type of teenager‚ one who was not only different‚ but was rebellious
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The most popular events in Australia are unquestionably sporting events. The many sporting events which occur annually attest to the love affair Australians share with their sports and the sense of national/regional pride and unity of which it commands. The Australian Open‚ Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix‚ State of Origin‚ The Bledisloe Cup‚ the AFL‚ the Tri-Nation‚ Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race are few examples of Australia’s sporting events which dominate much of Australian culture and in turn vastly
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